This weekend I drove about 3 hours south to Portland to attend Orycon, a small-ish science fiction con of around 2,000 people. It felt like a good-sized con, although I’ve come to realize that what makes a con feel “big” or “small” is not so much the number of attendees, but the ratio between the [...]
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Orycon Report: Portland, Panels, and Puns
Posted in Travel, tagged Cons, Geek, Panels on November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Road Trip Day 11: Mapless Near Seattle
Posted in Life, Travel, tagged Road Trip, Seattle on October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Early in the afternoon of Day 11, I finally arrived in Seattle. It was a gray, overcast day, the kind for which Seattle is famous– although it wasn’t actually raining. The final two hundred miles was uneventful, except for the part where I lost the directions I had written down (there were a few zigs [...]
Road Trip Day 10: On the Eve of the End
Posted in Travel, tagged Portland, Road Trip on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my last blog post before I embarked, I estimated my Seattle arrival date as October 27th. Turns out I was one day off: it’s now the 27th, but instead of being “home” in Seattle, I’m in a hotel room in Seaside, Oregon, about 200 miles south. This is mostly on purpose. I have a [...]
Road Trip Day 8: Winter Views and Winter Roads
Posted in Travel, tagged Road Trip, Snow, Yellowstone on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I was originally planning this trip, one reason I wanted to leave by mid-October was so I could travel across the north of the country while it was still free of snow. In particular, I wanted to drive through Yellowstone National Park, and the roads in Yellowstone are very much seasonal: many are closed [...]
Road Trip Day 7: From Plains to Prairie
Posted in Travel, tagged Road Trip, Wyoming on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After only about ten minutes of driving this morning, I crossed into the state of Wyoming. Whereas most of the road in South Dakota passed through flat, unchanging farmland, the scenery in Wyoming was much more interesting– Wyoming doesn’t have farmland, it has pasture, and the difference is significant. Farmland is flat and tame; pasture [...]
Road Trip Day 6: The Road to Rushmore
Posted in Travel, tagged Mt. Rushmore, Road Trip, South Dakota on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today was my longest-mileage day yet: I drove just over 400 miles. But it’s also the first day in which my starting and ending points were both in the same state. Such is the nature of the Great Plains states: large and flat. My rate of travel was helped by the 75 mph speed limit, [...]
Road Trip Day 5: Crossing the Plains
Posted in Travel, tagged Great Plains, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Road Trip on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m typing this up from a hotel room in a small town called Canistota, somewhere west of Sioux Falls in South Dakota. And by small, I mean really small– there are no chain restaurants, just two local cafes, a gas station, and not much else on the main drag. Having dinner at a cafe, one [...]
Road Trip Day 3: Chicago!
Posted in Travel, tagged Chicago, Cincinnati, Road Trip, Unhealthy food on October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I was a little kid, Chicago held a certain allure in my mind. I’m not sure why; maybe it was the Sears Tower, maybe it was the mystique of Wrigley Field, maybe it was just the sound of the name. But whatever it was, for several years, if anyone asked me where I would [...]
Road Trip Day 1: On the Move At Last
Posted in Travel, tagged Road Trip on October 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The first day of my epic drive to Seattle got off to a slow start, despite waking up about 7 to say good-bye to Mom. It took about three hours of last-minute packing, double checking, and fidgeting with said packing before everything was either in or strapped to the car and I could see out [...]
T-Minus One Day
Posted in Life, Travel, tagged Road Trip on October 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Car’s almost completely packed. Final good-byes are all said, except for one. Blog entries get shorter. And the route is planned out (although of course it is subject to alterations along the way): Cary, NC to Seattle, WA (with a few detours along the way) Estimated Seattle arrival date: October 27 Hopefully along the way [...]
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